🚨 Munitions inventory leaked to me shows Border Patrol is stockpiling over 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis for crowd control. Full inventory here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...

Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.

NEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz

New Quinnipiac Trump approval poll 🟤 Disapprove 56% 🟢 Approve 37%

buddy there is an entire supreme court decision about how not illegal it is.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

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there's something unholy about the Trump administration being laser focused on "fraud" while Trump pardons an endless clown car of fraudsters and bilks taxpayers at every opportunity. it's just transparently absurd.

NB if this was a movie, Mackenzie Scott would now buy WaPo off her ex and make a spectacular go of it. Unfortunately this is not a movie.

Melania made just £32,974 in its opening weekend in the UK. It didn't even make it into the top 30 films despite being on its opening weekend. 🤣

🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"

Simple test for Republicans. Replace Somali with any (of your favored) ethnic/national/religious group. If it sounds racist then it is racist.

Payroll giant ADP reported that employers in the private sector added just 22,000 jobs in January, about half the size of the 45,000-job gain economists were expecting. https://cnn.it/3ZORhoz

Whistleblower’s lawyer to Tulsi: “You have given us zero guidance… I will contact the senate committee re your conduct on Monday… I maintain top secret eligibility and have been routinely read into matters of national security…” (From @AdamParkhomenko)

Speaking of DHS becoming toxic:

In the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina that has infected more than 800 people, some children have developed a rare but serious complication called encephalitis. www.wired.com/story/measle...

Jacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

UPDATE — TEXAS: The Trump supporter who started a fight with those high school kids, and proceeded to get his ass kicked and run away, has been arrested. (Right-wingers had cut off the top of the video that showed he started it) www.kxan.com/news/local/b...

Former speechwriter for Bush the Younger and Senior Editor at The Atlantic:

Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.

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oh COME ON

NEW: A rupture between DOJ and ICE has emerged in Minnesota, where overwhelmed prosecutors keep dropping the ball — and saying ICE won't return their messages. The crisis has had real-world consequences for migrants illegally detained w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Remember when Brianna lost her shit because Biden gave a speech in front of two marines?

"Really hard criminals"

DID YOU KNOW?..... Julie Le, the temporary DOJ prosecutor whose frustration with her job poured out in court Tuesday, was appointed by Gov. Walz to a MN state education board in 2024. She quit last year to work for DHS as an immigration-court prosecutor www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

MELTDOWN IN MINNEAPOLIS: Trump's Twin Cities immigration crackdown is mired in legal morass where court orders are routinely ignored. 1 frazzled govt lawyer just reassigned after saying in court her job 'sucks' & system is 'broken.' More w/@kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Fulton County officials moved Wednesday to regain control of thousands of 2020 election records seized by federal agents last week.

Striking: GOP Senator Roger Wicker just came out strongly against new ICE detention center in Mississippi. The story of the moment is brewing opposition in red areas (see piece and thread below)

Vast camps are central to Trumpism. Stephen Miller has long been very excited about them. Backlash is another sign that opposition to Trump/Miller runs deeper than revulsion at ICE. There's real resistance to the whole ideological project of mass deportations. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Minneapolis conservative neighborhood vibe check:

BREAKING: huge, gigantic, enormous win SCOTUS allows our big victory at trial upholding the Prop 50 redistricting to remain in place Kudos to my @democracydefendersaction.org, @lulacorg.bsky.social, Arnold & Porter & rest of the coalition that countered Trump's attempt to steal Congressional seats

Quinnipiac poll | 1/29-2/2 RV President Trump approval Disapprove 56% (+2) Approve 37% (-3) poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

There’s a real tendency to lose sight of the distinction between “won’t solve the entire problem” and “doesn’t accomplish anything”

BREAKING: Supreme Court denies California Republicans’ emergency request to block their state’s newly redrawn House map

“Pursued by suburban observers, ICE agents are freaking out.”

*SUPREME COURT ALLOWS NEW CALIFORNIA VOTING MAP FOR MIDTERMS

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

We're having conversations about whether going to pedo island is different than being invited to pedo island and whether the President has enough manpower to overthrow an election or if he can only hurt a few people because he doesn't have enough guys like these are normal things separated by nuance

Believe all these guys when they act like they’re in a war against America. They think they are.

One might interpret the Washington Post news as consistent with my ongoing claim that our legacy institutions, once thought to be the bulwark of civil society, will not save our democracy. They are simply too vulnerable to the extortion leveled by the ruling regime.

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

Also: 2,300 ICE agents is still almost exactly the number of local police officers from the ten largest police forces in Minnesota COMBINED. As such, can report there's been no change on the ground today in my community.

life comes at you fast

GARCIA: Do you have any idea how much we're spending on ICE every day? BESSENT: This is the financial stability oversi--- GARCIA: You're the treasury. You're supposed to follow the money. How much are they spending to terrorize communities? BESSENT: Again, President Trump has secured the border

GARCIA: If you're on public benefits, how do you afford a $500k house? BESSENT: Let me clarify your confusion GARCIA: I'm not confused, sir. Don't be demeaning to me. Because I'm going to object and make you answer questions

TORRES: Does the president have the constitutional authority to remove the chair of the Fed or a member of the board solely because of a policy disagreement? BESSENT: I'm not a lawyer and don't have an opinion TORRES: You have no opinion on whether the president can remove a board member at will?

TORRES: Do you know how many manufacturing jobs have been post since April 2025 under your watch? BESSENT: Well, manufacturing operates with very long lea--- TORRES: Is there a number? BESSENT: About 67,000 TORRES: It's 70,000